Tikvat Israel Messianic Synagogue

The Tikvat Israel Messianic Synagogue is a Messianic Jewish synagogue in Richmond, Virginia which was founded in 1994. It was built in 1914 as home of a Baptist church, and it also housed an Orthodox Jewish synagogue from the 1940s to the 1970s. In 1990, Rabbi Jamie Cowen purchased the synagogue, which welcomed both Jewish and gentile believers in Jesus' role as the Messiah.